rua

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) street; road (paved path)
2. (feminine) streets (urban areas outside buildings)

Intj

out! (strong, impolite demand for someone to leave)

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of ruar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of ruar:

ruar

to go for a walk; to flirt, to stroll (to wander the streets frequently, to walk without direction or time to return)

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Concepts

street

road

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lane

avenue

thoroughfare

boulevard

parkway

roadway

sidewalk

way

public road

aisle

busway

approach

carriageway

drag

garden walk

highway

Synonyms

estrada

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alameda

trilho

calçada

avenida

estradas

bulevar

Ruas e avenidas

aléia

avenida arborizada

caminho

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pista

Translations

calle

Straße

rue

strada

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straat

via

carrer

οδός

via

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δρόμος

route

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sokak

vicus

شارع

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʁu.ɐ/

Etymology

Cognate with French: rue

Cognate with Spanish: rúa

Cognate with Galician: rúa

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese rua (“street”), from or influenced by Old French rue (Modern French rue) or Old Spanish rua (Modern Spanish rúa), from Vulgar Latin *ruga (“furrow, path, street”), from Latin ruga (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewp- (“to become encrusted”). Cognate with Galician rúa. Doublet of ruga.

Sentences

Você passou por mim na rua quase todo dia .

You passed me on the street almost every day.

Um grupo de crianças está do lado de fora em uma rua .

A group of children is outside on a street.

Uma criança pequena de camisa vermelha fica no meio da rua .

A small child in a red shirt stands in the middle of the street.

Os meninos estão jogando futebol na rua do bairro .

The boys are playing soccer on the neighborhood street.

Um jovem empresário andando na rua , enquanto um pássaro preto voa na frente dele .

A young businessman walks down the street, while a black bird flies in front of him.

Garcia pôde então observar que a dedicação ao ferido da rua D .

Garcia could then observe that the dedication to the wounded of Rua D.